MATLAB: How to change 10×2 cell array to 1x10cell array of [1×2 double]

Question

I am working with two arrays:

 exon_starts =
  10×1 cell array
    [67027889]
    [67029663]
    [67031028]
    [67031451]
    [67031950]
    [67032793]
    [67033875]
    [67035994]
    [67047785]
    [67049018]
 exon_ends =
  10×1 cell array
    [67028167]
    [67029742]
    [67031098]
    [67031514]
    [67032026]
    [67032864]
    [67033993]
    [67036128]
    [67047911]
    [67049213]

I want to create a 1×10 cell array where each columns is [1×2 double]. I can only achieve this so far by manually taking elements from both arrays in the following manner, but this is quite laborious:

 exons={[67027889 67028167],[67029663 67029742],[67031028 67031098],[67031451 67031514],[67032465 67032541],[67032793 67032864],[67033875 67033993],[67035994 67036128],[67047785 67047911],[67049018 67049213]}

I tried num2cell function, but this gives me 1×2 cell array {10×1 cell} {10×1 cell}

Answer 1

This simple line does exactly what you want:

 exon = num2cell(cell2mat([exon_starts,exon_ends]),2)'

giving

 >> exon{1}
  ans =
     67027889   67028167
  >> exon{2}
  ans =
     67029663   67029742

etc